Rebirth of the Son Raiders

According to the old practice of Liangzhou, the new emperor kept filial piety for the first emperor for three months, and the year name was changed only in the second year.

Calculated in this way, after the spring of the next year, the filial piety period of the official family has passed long ago, and everything has stabilized. At this time, it is the right time to mention the draft to His Majesty.

Although she felt that it was a bit late in her heart, Xu also knew that some things were too haste to make progress - if the draft was mentioned now, it would be disrespectful to the late emperor, and even the Queen Mother who hoped that His Majesty would spread more branches and leaves might not be happy.

Empress Wulan Tuya is the princess of the Yong Kingdom, so she is of a very noble status, and she was rightly matched with the prince of the Liang Kingdom back then.

But it is precisely because of her foreign blood that her majesty's appointment of a queen has attracted criticism - as Princess Yu, Ulan Tuya's Yongzhou blood is not so influential, but now that she has become a queen, her majesty's two sons are both If she came out, the problem is much more serious.

Although Princess Yongguo came to Liangzhou to marry His Royal Highness King Yu, the marriage was personally designated by the late Emperor, but Xu could feel that the Empress Dowager was not very satisfied with the queen's status as Princess Yongguo. She treats her like an ordinary mistress.

It's just that the Empress Dowager wanted to take Yu Wang's son and Yu Wang's youngest son to Beijing when the first emperor was seriously ill, which caused some suspicions between the mother and the son. Li Qiyu's likes and dislikes.

Where did the deep enmity come from between mother and son? It won't be long before the mother and son restore their relationship, and the Queen Mother's influence on His Majesty will naturally increase.

Mrs. Xu even had some doubts. His Majesty had no intention of establishing the position of crown prince when he sidelined the empress, although he had only two sons. Maybe it was because of the foreign blood of the eldest son of the emperor, and he did not plan to appoint an heir now.

From this point of view, the little Highness who is said to be extremely favored may also face the same problem.

No matter how many sons are born in the middle palace, it is the same... If His Majesty does not want an heir of foreign blood, he will definitely want other princes.

As long as she has the status of imperial concubine at that time, even if she is too old to be born, she can hold a prince born to a low-ranking concubine by her side and nurture her carefully.

There are countless examples of mothers in previous dynasties who value their children more than their sons. Even the empress dowager, the virtuous concubine, became the final winner because of the late emperor. Even if the late emperor passed away, the one who sits on the throne today is still her own son, the empress dowager. Steady as a mountain.

Although His Majesty has only one queen now, no one knows what will happen in the future.

For Mrs. Xu, the most urgent task now is to serve the Queen Mother well and find ways to please the old man.

Thinking of this, she said to her mother, Xu Luoshi: "Queen Dowager Qianqiu, I plan to give a six-screen embroidery of a hundred birds facing a phoenix. Picture, I don't know where to find it..."

Seeing her cheering up, Xu Luo felt distressed and relieved at the same time, so he stopped talking about other things and concentrated on discussing with her the congratulatory gift for the Queen Mother.

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At the same time, in the Changle Palace where the queen lived, the queen Ulan Tuya didn't think about these "troublesome things" at all. She was "walking" in the palace garden with her youngest son.

The little prince is almost two years old now, and his calves are very strong. If it weren't for the fear that the child would be unhealthy if he walked too early, Wulan Tuya and Qing Lan would have detained him, and Xiao Jingxi would have been on the ground a long time ago. started running.

Wulan Tuya didn't hold him, and let him move in front, staggering a bit.

I saw him walking staggeringly, which made others feel frightened, but if he didn't fall, in Wulan Tuya's words, it was "grinding people".

"Your Highness, slow down."

Wulan Tuya, the mother, laughed even when she saw her son fall, and Qing Lan didn't expect her queen to be "useful". She and Bai Lu followed Li Jingxi, one on the left and one on the right, and he was about to fall When it happened, I immediately rushed forward to help him.

At this time, someone in the palace reported that His Majesty had come, and everyone hurriedly prepared to gather in the front hall to meet His Majesty, but who knew that Li Qiyu had already walked in quickly and walked straight to Wulan Tuya's side.

When Xiao Jingxi saw his father coming, he immediately ran to this side happily, but he was probably too excited, so he didn't pay much attention to his feet, fell heavily with a "plop", and sat on the ground in a daze, at a loss .

His soul realized that he had seen someone coming, running (rolling) towards Li Qiyu with a "correct posture" that did not match his round body at all, but when he realized that the main body had fallen flat, it stopped immediately. Turning his head, he looked curiously at the stunned body.

Qing Lan and Bai Lu were slow because they saluted His Majesty, and when they saw His Highness sitting on the ground, they hurried forward to pick him up.

But Li Qiyu waved his hand, telling them not to be nervous, let Li Jingxi stand up by himself.

"Jingxi, come here." Although Li Qiyu's tone was as straight as ever, the rare gentleness and patience in it were obvious, and it seemed that His Majesty was not as serious as he seemed.

Hearing his father's "call", Li Jingxi's dazed little eyes finally focused, and he immediately laughed, his brows and eyes curved like crescent moons, and he could already see the goodness of inheriting the advantages of his parents at a young age.

Sure enough, he was obedient and didn't let anyone help him, so he got up by himself, and then continued to trot while his scar healed and forgot the pain.

"Your Majesty, hold grandchildren but not children." Wulan Tuya teased in a low voice with a smile in her eyes.

Li Qiyu glanced at her, and hugged his youngest son even tighter—the eldest son has someone to spend time with him, but it is a pity that he will not leave any heirs... If he wants to hold a grandson, he can only wait for Xiaodou Dingxi to grow up Adult, then marry a wife and have children.

Li Jingxi's chubby hand was picking at the gold thread pattern on his father's clothes, which was full of destructive power. Sure enough, his father pinched his restless little hand, and then showed his small white teeth, smiling sweetly, making people unbearable to blame him for half a day sentence.

Li Qiyu walked in with his son in his arms, and the cub who was still holding his leg just now let go of his little claws, and followed them as if he was afraid of being left behind.

"Jing Cheng sent a letter, saying that Hongxiu has woken up, and the imperial doctor said that there is nothing serious." Wulan Tuya followed him as he walked.

When Lin Yanhong returned to Pingwu from Xicang, probably because he was too tired and nervous some time ago, he had some symptoms of dizziness while riding in the air, and he passed out when he arrived in Pingwu.

This matter cannot be hidden from His Majesty, Li Jingcheng saw that Lin Yanhong woke up, afraid that his father and queen mother would be worried in Beijing, so he immediately wrote to report.

Li Qiyu nodded when he heard the words, put Li Jingxi on the couch, let him play with puppets, and then said to Wulan Tuya: "The matter of Wang Shizi's escape has some results."

He paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about the wording: "He is a palace man who entered the palace when Emperor Xuan was, and several of his adopted sons are in relatively key positions, so they can cooperate smoothly."

Back then, Prince Qi and Prince Jing fled at almost the same time, and the Queen Mother used iron and blood to clean up the harem. After a period of follow-up, it finally came to fruition.

——During the period of Emperor Xuan... Isn't that an old palace man?Why do you want to help the two princes escape?

Probably understood the meaning in Wulan Tuya's eyes, Li Qiyu explained: "It is because of the grace of Emperor Xuan for saving his life and rebuilding. I think that the sons of Prince Qi and Prince Jing are both descendants of Emperor Xuan, and I don't want them to die in Beijing. , and he is about to go out of the palace to recuperate, I thought he would have gone far away when I was found out, but I didn't expect that there were still some places showing his flaws."

Emperor Xuan was the father of Emperor Xian and Li Qiyu, and King Qi and Prince Jing were also the sons of Emperor Xuan. The old palace man was grateful for the great kindness of the old lord and did not want the descendants of Emperor Xuan to die in the palace, which was reasonable.

After all, this kind of elderly palace man can leave the palace at his own request when he reaches his age, and there is no need to be involved in such things as the change of imperial power.

"Then did he explain how he sent the two princes out, and how he got in touch with the people of Prince Qi and Prince Jing?"

Li Qiyu replied: "No, he and the palace servants involved committed suicide."

This kind of sending the rebellious prince's son out of the palace is a serious crime of implicating the nine clans and committing chaos. Suicide is probably the most comfortable way.

The people died like this, and the specific circumstances were unknown, and other clues were naturally interrupted with their deaths. At that time, the situation in Beijing was chaotic, and it was a bit difficult to find clues about how they got out of the capital.

"Now that we have found out how the prince got out of the palace, the queen mother can rest assured."

In fact, the queen mother has always been very unhappy with the fact that Wang Shizi escaped from under her nose, so she thoroughly investigated the matter without mercy.

"The queen mother has mentioned a few little princes to you recently?"

Wulan Tuya replied with some helplessness: "Yes, it was just a hint before, but now it has begun to be mentioned explicitly."

After the nine princes were ordered to go to Nanchong, several young princes who were under house arrest by the second prince Li Jingxun returned to the queen mother because their mothers were all sent to the royal temple to practice and pray for the late emperor.

The twelve princes are a little older and close, but the youngest, the fifteenth, is only eight years old, and he is still far away from being able to stand on his own and guard the border.

However, His Majesty only has two sons now. Except for the Nine Princes of the late Emperor in Nanchong and Prince Hui and his son in the east, it may be fine in the past few decades, the other two realms need adult royals to guard them.

The twelve princes will either go to the Western Regions or the Northern Territory in exchange for His Majesty's eldest son, but the two younger ones are uncertain.

Generally speaking, princes will build a mansion when they are adults, but His Majesty is the uncle of Twelve, so it is not appropriate for a prince who is not a parent to stay in the palace.

The Empress Dowager lost the first emperor and several grown-up grandsons, and she especially felt pity for Twelve and them, so she hoped that they would not leave the palace too early to build a mansion.

What Wulan Tuya didn't tell Li Qiyu was that Mrs. Xu is now very "obedient" in front of the Queen Mother, and she has won the favor of the Queen Mother. Those "speaking words", without Mrs. Xu, would not have been so easy to say Come.

"Today I will follow you to see the Queen Mother."